Adult novels are as ephemeral as newspapers. Children's books stay in print for decades.

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• Sid Fleischman:

  Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but

• Sid Fleischman:

  I am astonished, when I pause to think about it, to discover myself to be an author of humorous nov

• Sid Fleischman:

  In my first story, 'Mr. Mysterious & Company'... I was asked to take out some of the humor because

• Sid Fleischman:

  As an adult, I'll give a writer 50 pages. If the book doesn't interest me in 50 pages, I'll say the

• Leo McKern:

  I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

• Leo McKern:

  If I get an obit in the Times, they will say, of course, known to millions as Rumpole.

• Leo McKern:

  It is easy to believe in freedom of speech for those with whom we agree.

• Frederick Reines:

  During my participation in the Manhattan Project and subsequent research at Los Alamos, encompassin

• Frederick Reines:

  However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, wh

• Frederick Reines:

  I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathema